> Every Friday for the past few weeks, embassies
> in Kabul have told foreign nationals to prepare
> for a rerun of the 2005 Mohammed cartoon riots.
> Back then, mobs attacked Western businesses
> and embassies across the Islamic world to protest
> images in a Danish newspaper that depicted the
> Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.
> This time the potential affront is a film made by
> right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders, in which
> he denounces Islam's Koran as a "fascist" book
> that "incites people to murder." Rumors put out
> by the Wilders camp suggest he burns a copy of
> the Koran in the film.

> Both cartoon and film (due to be released next
> month) are clearly crass and self-serving exercises
> that pay lip service to the idea of freedom of speech
> while being little more than vehicles for xenophobia.